Club 3D Intros HD 5450 Noiseless Edition 512 MB Graphics Card
Club 3D introduced a new graphics card model based on the ATI Radeon HD 5450 GPU, the Club 3D HD 5450 Noiseless Edition 512 MB. This full-height graphics card is passively cooled, and has a single-slot design. It packs a DirectX 11 compliant GPU based on the Cedar core, which is built on the 40 nm manufacturing process and has a low energy draw. It packs 80 stream processors and a 64-bit wide memory interface to address its 512 MB of GDDR3 memory. The GPU runs at 650 MHz, with the memory at 800 MHz. Connectivity includes DVI, D-Sub, and HDMI with 7.1 channel Dolby Digital audio. It is expected to be priced under US $50.
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(PR) Lian Li Launches PITSTOP PC-T1 Mini-ITX Spider Test Bench
Lian Li Industrial Co. Ltd Ltd, today officially launches the PITSTOP T1 Mini-ITX Spider Test Bench 2010 Special Edition, promising to be an eye-catching and most innovative testing bench in the industry. Uniquely designed with spider's four legs and M/B tray completely angle-adjustable available in red, silver and black colors, Lian Li's PC-T1 is most ideal for hardware enthusiast looking to display an impressive computer system for the next LAN Party or to challenge family and friends with a unique looking HTPC.
After the PC-777 snail shell design and the PC-888 sail design, the PC-T1 challenges again the concept of how a PC case has to look. Since its first appearance at CeBIT 2010, Lian Li's T1 mini-ITX Spider Test Bench has caused a great sensation and whirlwind of inquires.
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MSI Prepares Lower-Cost Lucid Hydra-based LGA1156 Motherboard
MSI is working on its third motherboard that makes use of Lucid Hydra multi-GPU technology, this one aimed to be a more affordable model than the Big Bang Fuzion, for the socket LGA-1156 platform. Lucid Hydra technology allows users to mix and match graphics cards from across brands and models to upscale performance. A newly-release driver (1.5.106) for Hydra is said to increase functionality by adding full support for DirectX multi-GPU scaling, as well as expects significantly higher performance upscaling compared to older drivers. The new motherboard from MSI is the P55-GD88 Hydra, also to be known as P55A Hydra.
Built on a PCB that's different from that of the Big Bang Fuzion, the P55A Hydra uses High-C capacitors only for the CPU VRM, with normal solid-state capacitors for the rest of the board. Unlike the Big Bang Fuzion it has only two PCI-Express 2.0 x16 slots, but these slots work at x16 speeds. Perhaps the only selling point for Hydra on this setup (since Intel P55 platform already supports both SLI and CrossFire, and tests have shown performance hit between x16 and x8 to be insignificant for even high-end GPUs), is the ability to mix and match different kinds of graphics cards, including mixing an ATI Radeon card with an NVIDIA GeForce card.
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AMD Releases Catalyst 10.4 Preview, Fixes Bad Company 2 Issue for Radeon HD5000 Users
AMD released the ATI Catalyst 10.4 Preview driver suite. The driver builds on the feature-set of Catalyst 10.3, but packs a hotfix addressing an issue users of the ATI Radeon HD 5000 series are facing with Battlefield: Bad Company 2 regarding slow map load times. The new drivers reduce map load times. For users of Radeon HD 4000, HD 3000 and older GPUs, ATI assured that it will release a preview driver that does the same in a few days from now. The driver will be called Catalyst 10.4a. The release notes for these drivers along with a full list of changes for Catalyst 10.4 will be published when the company releases the WHQL-signed version later this month.
DOWNLOAD: ATI Catalyst 10.4 Preview for Radeon HD 5000 Series
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(PR) Patriot Memory Announces Zephyr Series Solid State Drives
Patriot Memory, a global pioneer in high-performance memory, NAND flash and computer technology, today announced the addition of the Zephyr series to its family of solid-state-drives (SSDs). The Zephyr series of SSD offer improved system responsiveness with quicker boot times and shorter application loading times over traditional hard disk drive storage solutions.
Patriot's Zephyr series, available in 64GB, 128GB and 256GB capacities, is designed around the latest generation controller from JMicron: JMF612. With a controller level cache of 64MB DDR2, the Zephyr series provide stutter-free performance and offer speeds of up to 240MB/s Read and 180MB/s Write. To maintain performance integrity over the life of the drive, the Zephyr series SSDs include native support for the TRIM command in Microsoft Windows 7.
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(PR) Intel Plans New Intel Atom Processor-based System-on-Chip
Intel unveils upcoming "Tunnel Creek" System-on-Chip (SoC) for IP phones, printers and in-vehicle-infotainment systems for cars. Two Intel executives today outlined the latest Intel system-on-chip (SoC) products for embedded applications and described new research to allow homes and small businesses to better use and manage energy. The forthcoming SoC product features an Intel Atom processor core that, for the first time, will let other companies create PCI Express-compliant devices that directly connect to the chip, which offers new flexibility for embedded applications.
Intel also highlighted work with HawTai, a major Chinese car maker that plans to use Intel Atom processors and MeeGo software for their in-car infotainment systems. In addition, China Mobile, the world's largest wireless telecommunications company, will adopt Intel chips for targeted platforms powering its wireless networks.
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Chieftec Intros CH-09B-B-OP ATX Mid-Tower Case
Chieftec rolled out its newest PC case, the CH-09B-B-OP. Adhering to the company's ideology of "more for less", the CH-09B-B-OP is a ATX mid-tower that provides basic casing and more. It measures 540 x 205 x 480 mm with its feet folded, and makes use of steel and ABS. Apart from the five 5.25" and one exposed 3.5" drive bays, the case features tool-free installation, inlets for water-cooling tubing, and ventilations which includes one 120 mm fan in its front and rear, each, and two mounts for 80 mm fans. The new case reach stores later this month.
Source: TechConnect Magazine
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